Word: primed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result is that British Might, made articulate by the British High Commissioner to Egypt, George Ambrose Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Dolobran, is able to force the Wafd to tolerate as Prime Minister a statesman like Sarwat Pasha who is acceptable to Downing Street...
...Prime Minister Abdel Khalek Sarwat Pasha attained the focus of interest when he recently submitted to party leaders the draft treaty which he negotiated in London, during King Fuad's visit there (TIME, July...
Styled a "Treaty of Alliance," the new pact contains important British concessions. The trouble is, from an Egyptian point of view, that Prime Minister Sarwat does not represent the majority party of Egypt, the indomitable Wafd, once headed by the late famed Saad Zaghlul Pasha. Whenever the Wafd votes down a cabinet and seeks, as the majority party, to assume power, one or more British warships are usually in evidence to menace Egyptian harbors...
...High Commissioner's residence, Lord Lloyd, suave, impeccably clad and steelyeyed, received Sarwat's report with quiet understanding. From the High Commissioner's presence the Prime Minister went forth to his thankless task of trying to persuade the Wafd, now led by little known Mustafa El Nahass Pasha, that it must again knuckle under...
...play was first shown in London in 1924, enjoying a great success, and was then brought to New York to be smothered within a fortnight. Hereabouts it is known only as a printed play, the work of a poet, cut off in the prime of his youth, whose imagination was fantastic, realistic, and glamorous...